Rajneeshtag:www.oregonlive.com,2015:/rajneesh/index.ssf/80015652014-02-18T16:58:51ZBhagwhan Shree RajneeshMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advanceThe Oregonian's series on Rajneeshees brings flood of memoriestag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.61496752011-04-21T21:00:00Z2011-04-21T21:26:46ZReaders respond via emails, voice messages and on Facebook.Les Zaitz | The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/lzaitz/index.html
Readers respond via emails, voice messages and on Facebook.
Rajneeshees in Oregon: Sect's dreams fall apart as plots turn murderoustag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.6145005.201104201645502011-04-21T01:00:00Z2011-04-20T23:45:50ZPart 5 of Rajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: In 1985, the Rajneesh commune dissolves after death plots and botched assassination attempts target outsiders and insiders alike.The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
Part 5 of Rajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: In 1985, the Rajneesh commune dissolves after death plots and botched assassination attempts target outsiders and insiders alike.
The Oregonian's Les Zaitz on investigating the Rajneeshees (personal essay)tag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60884632011-04-15T17:45:00Z2011-04-15T22:21:52ZReporter Les Zaitz talks about investigating the Rajneeshees, and how he ended up on a Rajneeshee hit list.The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
Reporter Les Zaitz talks about investigating the Rajneeshees, and how he ended up on a Rajneeshee hit list.
Ma Anand Sheela: Rajneeshees' public face left Oregon but holds onto blame, bitternesstag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.61101822011-04-14T22:41:26Z2011-04-15T22:00:45ZRajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's former-aide, now running care homes for disabled in Switzerland, will not discuss her crimes.Les Zaitz | The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/lzaitz/index.html
Rajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's former-aide, now running care homes for disabled in Switzerland, will not discuss her crimes.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: Enlightenment was lure for many of his followerstag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.61100532011-04-14T22:14:26Z2011-04-15T22:01:22ZThe guru offered a supposedly nonreligious answer for seekers, and a chance to become a deityLes Zaitz | The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/lzaitz/index.html
The guru offered a supposedly nonreligious answer for seekers, and a chance to become a deity
Rajneeshees' Utopian dreams collapse as talks turn to murder -- Part 5 of 5tag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.61098022011-04-14T21:34:47Z2011-04-15T22:24:55ZRajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: In 1985, the Rajneesh commune dissolves after death plots and botched assassination attempts target outsiders and insiders alike.Les Zaitz | The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/lzaitz/index.html
Rajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: In 1985, the Rajneesh commune dissolves after death plots and botched assassination attempts target outsiders and insiders alike.
Rajneeshee leaders see enemies everywhere as questions compound -- Part 4 of 5tag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.61097882011-04-14T21:31:09Z2011-04-15T22:03:20ZRajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: As problems grow for the Rajneeshees in 1984, an increasingly unstable Sheela continues her vicious campaign against enemies.Les Zaitz | The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/lzaitz/index.html
Rajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: As problems grow for the Rajneeshees in 1984, an increasingly unstable Sheela continues her vicious campaign against enemies.
Rajneeshee leaders take revenge on The Dalles' with poison, homeless -- Part 3 of 5tag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.61097782011-04-14T21:28:24Z2011-04-19T18:49:28ZRajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: In the mid-1980s, Rajneeshee operatives unleash a secret weapon in The Dalles and import homeless people to get an electoral edge.Les Zaitz | The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/lzaitz/index.html
Rajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: In the mid-1980s, Rajneeshee operatives unleash a secret weapon in The Dalles and import homeless people to get an electoral edge.
Thwarted Rajneeshee leaders attack enemies, neighbors with poison -- Part 2 of 5tag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.61097652011-04-14T21:25:38Z2011-04-15T22:00:10ZRajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: As land rules keep Rajneeshees from building the utopia they envision in the 1980s, they go from dirty tricks to biological warfare.Les Zaitz | The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/lzaitz/index.html
Rajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: As land rules keep Rajneeshees from building the utopia they envision in the 1980s, they go from dirty tricks to biological warfare.
25 years after Rajneeshee commune collapsed, truth spills out -- Part 1 of 5tag:www.oregonlive.com,2011:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.61097192011-04-14T21:13:46Z2014-02-18T16:58:51ZRajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: After a quarter century, a fuller and more bizarre account emerges of the deceptive and dangerous goings-on at Rancho Rajneesh in rural Oregon.Les Zaitz | The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/lzaitz/index.html
Rajneeshees in Oregon -- The Untold Story: After a quarter century, a fuller and more bizarre account emerges of the deceptive and dangerous goings-on at Rancho Rajneesh in rural Oregon.
Prem Niren maps Rajneeshees' legal strategy, gains in powertag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60238121985-12-30T22:39:41Z2011-04-15T01:31:24Z RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive As much by default as by design, Rajneeshee lawyer Prem Niren has emerged as apparent commander in chief at Rancho Rajneesh after leader upon leader abandoned the Central Oregon commune.Niren, 40, a...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive As much by default as by design, Rajneeshee lawyer Prem Niren has emerged as apparent commander in chief at Rancho Rajneesh after leader upon leader abandoned the Central Oregon commune.Niren, 40, a...
Infighting mars probe of Rajneesheestag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60238031985-12-30T22:37:15Z2011-04-15T01:30:59Z RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive The head of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service issued a confidential memorandum October 23 directing his employees not to arrest Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after the agency had just spent four years...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive The head of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service issued a confidential memorandum October 23 directing his employees not to arrest Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after the agency had just spent four years...
Flight from Oregon ends with Rajneesh in chains tag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60237701985-12-30T22:32:58Z2011-04-15T01:30:41Z RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive As the Gates Learjet 35’s twin engines whined to life, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh took what he thought would be a last look at the Central Oregon commune he was about to abandon.Rajneesh,...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive As the Gates Learjet 35’s twin engines whined to life, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh took what he thought would be a last look at the Central Oregon commune he was about to abandon.Rajneesh,...
Special unit of Rajneeshees dedicated to 'dirty tricks'tag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60237651985-12-30T22:24:51Z2011-04-15T01:30:00Z RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive Investigators have been turning up evidence since September of a special unit of Rajneeshees who executed dirty tricks against perceived opponents inside and outside the movement. Records and interviews reveal that the...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive Investigators have been turning up evidence since September of a special unit of Rajneeshees who executed dirty tricks against perceived opponents inside and outside the movement. Records and interviews reveal that the...
Oregon team travels paper maze to gain Sheela's arresttag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60237181985-12-30T22:21:25Z2011-04-15T01:29:43Z RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive His new passport still smelling like freshly printed currency, Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer’s chief investigator stepped quickly off the train in Bonn, West Germany.The platform clocks in the bahnhof showed it was...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
RajneeshAn Oregonianspecial report Home Photos Videos Archive His new passport still smelling like freshly printed currency, Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer’s chief investigator stepped quickly off the train in Bonn, West Germany.The platform clocks in the bahnhof showed it was...
A failed vision: Chronology of major events in the Rajneeshees' Oregon historytag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60236511985-12-30T22:07:52Z2011-04-15T01:29:24ZThe Rajneeshees’ four-year attempt to establish a permanent settlement in the Oregon desert started to fall apart in September when Anand Sheela and her lieutenants resigned their posts and fled to Europe. Here is a chronology of major events in...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
The Rajneeshees’ four-year attempt to establish a permanent settlement in the Oregon desert started to fall apart in September when Anand Sheela and her lieutenants resigned their posts and fled to Europe. Here is a chronology of major events in...
Rajneesh and company pull up stakes from Oregon as guru's vision in desert becomes a miragetag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60235041985-12-30T21:48:50Z2011-04-15T01:28:50ZQ. What do you think is your legacy?A. My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god, or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
Q. What do you think is your legacy?A. My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god, or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I...
Rajneeshees catch service napping (part 20 of 20)tag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60016231985-07-19T23:28:09Z2011-04-15T01:28:30Z“All we knew was, we had an old Indian fellow here for a visit.” -- Robert E. Krueger, retired Immigration officerThe U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, alerted in late 1981 to the possibility of immigration fraud in the Rajneesh movement,...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
“All we knew was, we had an old Indian fellow here for a visit.” -- Robert E. Krueger, retired Immigration officerThe U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, alerted in late 1981 to the possibility of immigration fraud in the Rajneesh movement,...
Immigration problems plague Rajneesh, followers (part 19 of 20)tag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60016191985-07-18T23:26:05Z2011-04-15T01:28:08Z“What is marriage now, or what has it been ever? Just a painful suffering – a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.” -- Bhagwan Shree...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
“What is marriage now, or what has it been ever? Just a painful suffering – a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.” -- Bhagwan Shree...
Experts draw distinctions between cults, religions (part 18 of 20)tag:www.oregonlive.com,1985:/rajneesh/index.ssf//8001565.60016141985-07-17T23:24:23Z2011-04-15T01:27:48Z“We have witnessed the potential for programmed ‘groupthink’ in other groups, especially the Unification Church (Moonies), the Children of God, the Divine Light Mission, the Church of Scientology and others. This is particularly apparent after mass rituals or rallies. The...The Oregonian/OregonLivehttp://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oregonian/index.html
“We have witnessed the potential for programmed ‘groupthink’ in other groups, especially the Unification Church (Moonies), the Children of God, the Divine Light Mission, the Church of Scientology and others. This is particularly apparent after mass rituals or rallies. The...